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Batteries

As Energy Demand Rises, More States Turn to Virtual Power Plants

The decentralized power systems are playing a growing role in the transition away from fossil fuels.

By Dan Gearino

A worker with Base Power installs a home battery system that can send energy back to the grid during peak times in Houston on Feb. 18, 2025. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images
Workers assemble electric vehicles on Jan. 13 at a factory in Zhejiang, China. Credit: VCG via Getty Images

China Widens Its Clean Energy Lead

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Workers are seen at the Pastoria Battery Energy Storage System facilities on April 16 in Arvin, Calif. Credit: Eric Thayer/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

California’s Battery Array Is as Powerful as 12 Nuclear Power Plants. Here’s What’s on the Horizon.

By Claire Barber

A lithium-ion battery is installed at a home in Granada Hills, Calif. Credit: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

California’s Climate Leaders Talk Clean Energy Growing Pains and the War on Iran

By Claire Barber

Technicians check equipment at a battery energy storage system in Daggett, Calif. Credit: Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Which State Leads in Battery Energy Storage? It Depends on How You Measure.

By Dan Gearino

Jupiter Power’s battery storage complex in Houston. The company was recently awarded incentives for a 200-megawatt project in Sayreville, N.J. Credit: Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

New Jersey Turns to Big Batteries as Power Prices Rise

By Rambo Talabong

B2U Storage Solutions repurposes electric vehicles batteries which have reached the end of their automative lives to provide power to the grid. Credit: Arcelia Martin/Inside Climate News

Retired EV Batteries Scored a New Gig: Bolstering Texas’ Grid

By Arcelia Martin

China's Vice-Premier He Lifeng delivers a speech during the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday. Credit: Fabrice Coffrin/AFP via Getty Images

Economic Interests Drive Chinese Climate Leadership Amid U.S. Retreat

By Dylan Baddour

Technicians check equipment installed at a solar farm and battery storage system on Oct. 18, 2023, in Daggett, Calif. Credit: Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Illinois Is Going All In on Battery Storage. What Will That Mean?

By Alexia Underwood

The construction site for Chinese battery giant CATL’s plant near Debrecen, Hungary, is seen on May 5, 2024. Credit: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP via Getty Images

China’s Clean Energy Investments Abroad Are a Boon for Climate, but Human Rights and the Environment Are a Different Story

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A battery storage facility in Iola, Texas. Credit: Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

How Batteries Could Play a Role in Data Center Rollouts

By Arcelia Martin

An aerial view of the Blue Jay solar and battery storage plant in Iola, Texas. Credit: Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

ERCOT’s Market is Transitioning Toward Storage and Solar

By Arcelia Martin

A view of a battery storage complex and substation in Houston. Credit: Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Trump’s Policies Risk Texas’ New Solar and Battery Projects

By Arcelia Martin

Credit: Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images

The EV Battery Tech That’s Worth the Hype, According to Experts

By Aarian Marshall, Wired

Transmission lines dot the rural landscape of Dwight, Ill. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Renewable Energy Act Before Illinois Legislature Would Decrease Stress on Ratepayers, Advocates Say

By Sarah Mattalian

EV batteries connected to chargers are a potentially vast resource that could be utilized by the grid. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Vehicle-to-Grid Power Is Becoming a Reality, But Why Isn’t Progress Faster?

By Dan Gearino

A foreman for the solar company Sunrun installs a 215-pound lithium-ion battery at a home in Granada Hills, Calif., on Jan. 4, 2020. Credit: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Virtual Power Plants Showed Up for Their Biggest Test Yet. Here Are the Results

By Dan Gearino

Hornet Solar in Swisher County, Texas, is the largest U.S. power plant to go online in the first six months of this year, based on its capacity of 600 megawatts. Credit: Vesper Energy

Solar and Batteries Lead US Power Plant Additions by a Lot. How Does This Square With the Trump Administration’s Agenda?

By Dan Gearino

580 EV battery packs are deployed in B2U’s SEPV Cuyama energy storage project in Santa Barbara County, Calif. The system charges from on-site solar and from the grid. Credit: Courtesy of B2U Storage Solutions

Hundreds of Old EV Batteries Have New Jobs in Texas: Stabilizing the Grid

By Arcelia Martin

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